Ten Books on ArchitecturePollio, Vitruvius & Morris H. Morgan, trans. The most important book ever written on architecture. Early Roman aesthetics, technology, classical orders, site selection, all other aspects. Morgan translation.... (more)

My Very First Book of WordsCarle, EricCan you tell how many cherries there are? How many apples? In the brilliantly colorful My Very First Book of Numbers, children can find the number of fruits in the bottom half of a page that matches the number of boxes and numerals in the top half. In My Very First Book of Words, children can... (more)

Book of Imaginary BeingsBorges, Jorge Luis & Andrew Hurley, trans.In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter Sís with Jorge Luis Borges's 1957 compilation of 116 strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imagination, from dragons and centaurs to Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat and the Morlocks of... (more)

Little DorritDickens, Charles & Wall, Stephen, et al., eds.When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of th... (more)